VGo-Assist, A Mobile Telepresence Robot to Engage Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

项目总结/摘要 辅助技术（AT）是一个广泛的活动领域，以支持身体健康，福祉，社会 连接性和在家中独立生活的能力。辅助机器人（AR）在很大程度上是指 机器人通过物理交互来帮助人们，而社交互动机器人（SIR）描述了 主要通过社交互动进行互动的机器。社会辅助机器人（SAR） 它被描述为辅助机器人（AR）和社交互动机器人（SIR）的交叉点。这个目标 第二阶段的项目是通过增强社交机器人（VGo）的辅助功能来开发VGo辅助机器人。 技术（AT）作为可扩展的智能家居/辅助环境（AE）解决方案的一部分， 阿尔茨海默病和相关痴呆症（ADRD）。从第一阶段工作开始， 招募了三组人：ADRD患者、家庭护理人员和临床工作人员， 与ADRD患者一起工作。所有的小组都同意VGo Assist可能会允许个人 与ADRD保持沿着生活在家里更长的时间或被单独留在家里很长一段时间， 表现出最高热情的群体是家庭照顾者。这群人的热情 特别高，因为他们也承受着阿尔茨海默病的重大负担。最近发表的一 阿尔茨海默氏症协会的一份报告显示，与没有老年痴呆症的人的照顾者相比， 痴呆症患者的护理人员中，有两倍的痴呆症患者表示， 59%的ADRD患者的家庭照顾者认为， 高或非常高。对于第二阶段，核心用例来自第一阶段调查研究的结果， 我们发现这也与其他类似调查研究的文献回顾结果非常一致。 第二阶段的具体目标是开发VGo Assist的功能，这将解决以下用例： 被确认了身份

Project Summary/Abstract Assistive Technologies (AT) is a broad area of activities to support physical health, well-being, social connectedness, and ability to live independently at home. Assistive Robotics (AR) has largely referred to robots that assisted people through physical interaction, while Socially Interactive Robotics (SIR) describe machines that interact primarily through social interaction. Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) has been described as the intersection of Assistive Robotics (AR) and Socially Interactive Robotics (SIR). The goal of this Phase II project is to develop the VGo Assist robot by augmenting a social robot (VGo) with assistive technologies (AT) as part of an expandable smart home/assistive environment (AE) solution for people with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD). From the Phase I work, a survey study was conducted which recruited three groups of people: individuals with ADRD, family caregivers, and clinical staff who worked with ADRD patients. All of the groups agreed that VGo Assist would potentially allow an individual with ADRD to remain living along at home longer or to be left home alone for long stretches of time, and the group that showed the highest level of enthusiasm was family caregivers. Enthusiasm among this group was particularly high because they also bear a significant burden from Alzheimer’s disease. A recently published report by the Alzheimer’s Association revealed that when compared with caregivers of people without dementia, twice as many caregivers of those with dementia indicate substantial financial, emotional and physical difficulties, and 59% of family caregivers of people with ADRD rated the emotional stress of caregiving as high or very high. For Phase II, core use cases were derived from the results of the Phase I survey study, which we found to also be very consistent with findings from literature review of other similar survey studies. The specific aims for Phase II are to develop capabilities for VGo Assist which will address the use cases that were identified.